Qualities and Skills Needed to Become a Teacher Presentation

Essential Skills that a Teach Should Acquire

Decision making and action-driven skills are extremely important because the teaching is a process that implies critical thinking(Kyriacou, 1998).

Ability to establish teaching objectives must match the learner’s perception and understanding of those objectives (Horton, 2011).

Finally, the teacher should be able to implement those objectives through designing topic activities and collecting lesson material (Horton, 2011).

Needs Assessment

What do you know?

Teaching profession is a challenge for communication, experience, and abilities of a person. An individual involved in teaching should possess a good command of various disciplines, including.

What do you want to know?

Teaching can be considered as a field that undergoes constant changes due to the development of technology and education theories. In this respect, specific attention should be given to skills that a teacher should possess to become a free user of virtual space for conducting e-lessons (Odden, 2011).

What are trying to measure to determine, measure, and define?

In order to determine whether the objectives have been met, specific attention should be given to the analysis of such aspects as individual’s flexibility and readiness to accept changes. The vision of instruction should produce measures assessing teaching effectiveness and practice.

How will you collect and record information?

The information should relate to education theories about teaching, as well as philosophical foundation of teaching as a profession. Consequently, the data can be drawn from recent surveys and research studies conducted to define what attributes teachers should possess to succeed in a learning environment.

How will you report the information you collected?

The collected data will be used as a PowerPoint presentation that will be presented during the lesson. The presentation will propose a set of engaging questions and activities based on the findings in literature. In addition, the survey can allow teachers to make up a list of questions to assess teacher’s readiness to accept changes.

Are all interested groups included in planning and conducting needs assessment?

The interest group are future teachers who are ready to adjust to a constantly changing setting and implement new strategies in conducting e-lessons.

Topic Activity: Objectives

What: Students should be able to define their skills and abilities that are necessary to become a good teacher;

How: They also need to outline the skills they already have, as well as outline strategies that can allow them to acquire the missed skills;

Why: Students should learn the basis of teaching as a profession.

Topic Activity: Learning definitions

Classroom management: a process implying organization of sequence of activities that engage students into learning(Strong, 2007);

Managing resources: teacher should be able to select materials for classes;

Assessment checklists and rubrics: evaluation sheets that are necessary to measure students’ performance.

The above-presented definitions should be explained in the classroom for a teacher to check the level of understanding and comprehension.

Topic Activity: Analysis of Case Studies

Teachers should be able to retell the stories that are based on the following model:

1. Interactive representation;
2. Repetition in a meaningful story;
3. Communicative activities;
4. Entertaining activities;
5. Conversations.

All these activities will allow teachers to understand the level of their creative thinking and communication skills while discussing the story with students and engaging them into the learning process.

Interactive Representation and Repetition of Context

• Presenting Characters;
• Repetition of important phrases and words;
• Understanding the Degree of Students’ Engagement;
• Estimating Students’ Stories;
• Analyzing personal involvement.

The first stage implies the assessment of the way teachers are creative, as well as the degree of their involvement into the class discussion. The second phase provides the analysis of teachers’ ability to involve students into the attention-grabbing activity. Teacher should be able to define how well teachers can recognize students’ weaknesses and strengths. Finally, it is important for a teacher to conduct self-assessment.

Communication Activities

• Teachers should discuss the characters and events and ask a set of questions to the students concerning relationships, morale, and prevailing topics in the story;
• Organizing games is another skills that a teacher should master to make students be more interested in topic elaboration;
• Problem solving skills are also important to check through analysis of teacher’s ability to define problems and provide solutions;
• Composing essays and checking them.

Entertainment Activities and conversation

• Teachers should recite their favorite poems and define the main problems and theme. Further, they should make up a list of questions for students;
• Second stage implies connecting the poem with broader themes of discussion:
• Teachers should develop their own lesson on the poem.

Conclusion

As soon as teachers go through all the topic activities, it will be easier for them to define what strengths and weaknesses they possess.

Teachers should be able to define what aspects of their experiences are valuable for teaching;

Finally, they should understand what skills should be acquired, including creating thinking, communication skills, problem solving skills, and readiness to change.

References

Horton, W. (2010). E-Learning by Design. US: John Wiley & Sons.

ÒKyriacou, C. (1998). Essential Teaching Skills. US: Nelson Thornes.

ÒOdden, A. (2011). Strategic Management on Human Capital in Education: Improving Instructional Practice and Student Learning in Schools. US: Taylor & Francis.

ÒStrong, J. H. (2007). Qualities of Effective Teachers. US: ASCD.